Deep Dive
The Raptors helped make basketball national in Canada. The CEBL matters because it makes professional basketball local. I think one of the easiest ways to misunderstand the Canadian Elite Basketball League is to judge it by what it is not. It is not the NBA. The arenas are smaller. The
NBA
The modern NBA has two scarce resources: cap space and possessions. The most valuable players are the ones who can create an impact without consuming too much of either. In my Jaylen Brown Trade article, I wrote that I did not believe Jaylen Brown was overrated in a basketball sense.
Music
He could convert poverty into texture, competition into sequencing, martial-arts movies into mythology, separate record contracts into collective promotion, individual personalities into album identities and eventually other producers’ beats into records that still sounded unmistakably Wu-Tang. The argument usually begins the way the best rap arguments begin: with
Deep Dive
Canadian football survived by refusing to become the NFL. The harder question is whether it could have borrowed the NFL’s structure without surrendering its identity. The Canadian Football League, aka the CFL, is one of the prides of Canada and Canadian culture because it is a unique and exclusively
NBA
Case No. 15: Toronto spent twenty years prosecuting Vince Carter. The evidence was real. The verdict was incomplete. With Kawhi Leonard reportedly coming back to Toronto, now is the perfect time to look back at the first superstar the Raptors ever had. NBA.com News Services reported that the Raptors